Boise State football loses scholarships and practice time

[Dossenator]

Boise State is being punished by the NCAA for rules violations over several sports. The football team will lose 3 scholarships a year for 3 years, and can only have 9 contact practices in the spring (down from 12) for 3 years.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story ... -reduction

So when will we hear about Auburn's punishment?

[Spence]

From what I had read about all of this, I think the NCAA over stepped. This has been going on for sometime.

[Brian Roastbeef]

From what I had read about all of this, I think the NCAA over stepped. This has been going on for sometime.

Well the can of worms has been opened. If the NCAA jumps on this, then they've set a precedent by which most of the schools are in danger of similar penalties. I suppose if there is a good point in this, it is maybe that the double-standard for Auburn will now become blatant enough that it will force their hand...

Nevertheless, I agree they've overstepped here. From what I read it seems that Boise expended all of $50, and maybe some of their senior players' personality skills. It is quickly moving to a blanket zero-tolerance approach where everybody is sanctioned for anything, rather than handling infractions on a case-by-case basis using common sense. There is a vast difference between giving recruits friendly tours of the school and lunches from Wendy's and donating thousands to the interests of a player's father and/or coach with a nudge and a wink that the money equals the kid's signature for their school.

Losing 9 practices is a pain. Hopefully they'll be able to stretch it to the UNLV or New Mexico games where it doesn't matter. Those guys could stumble in just off of a kegger and still put up 49 points against the Rebels.

[Dossenator]

From what I gathered from the article that I attached is that Boise is not being punished so much for the actual infractions but due to not reporting the infractions when they found out about them. It says something along the lines of Boise's compliance department not doing their job. It says that Boise had over 60 infractions with football players alone (over a lengthy amount of time). This of course lead to the lack of institutional control tag given by the NCAA.

[donovan]

My understanding these punishments are the same the school imposed on themselves, a common practice, hoping to fend off more severe penalties. I think it is correct, some of the offense..well one...was they spent $2.97 too much on a high school recruit when they came to town. Boise wants to play with the big boys...then they have to play the whole way. That part I am all right with. The NCAA in general...nincompoops.

[Spence]

My understanding these punishments are the same the school imposed on themselves, a common practice, hoping to fend off more severe penalties. I think it is correct, some of the offense..well one...was they spent $2.97 too much on a high school recruit when they came to town. Boise wants to play with the big boys...then they have to play the whole way. That part I am all right with. The NCAA in general...nincompoops.

The violations for football did not rise to a level that should have caused any action by the NCAA except maybe to say "don't do that" I guess Tennis and Track were the worst offenders, although, I didn't really look into what they did. The bottom line, though, is the NCAA needs to act with common sense and not treat a $6.00 McDonalds lunch like a $10,000 cash payment. They are very different things. The intent is very different.

[Vileborg]

I don't know, that $6.00 McDonalds meal is dangerous.

[Spence]

I don't know, that $6.00 McDonalds meal is dangerous.

That is what is really crazy about the NCAA. They only see black, white, and green.

[Vileborg]

I don't know, that $6.00 McDonalds meal is dangerous.

That is what is really crazy about the NCAA. They only see Dark Green, Green, and Light Green.

Fixed!